Cartographica Neerlandica Background for Ortelius Map No. 171

Title: "PALESTINAE SIVE | TOTIVS TERRAE PRO:|MISSIONIS NOVA | DESCRIPTIO AVC:|TORE TILEMANNO | STELLA SIGENENS". [A new representation of Palestine or all the promised land by Tileman Stella from Siena]. (Left below title cartouche:) "Cum priuilegio." [With privilege]. (Round cartouche in upper left with 15 lines of text:) "Antiquißima | huius terræ appellatio | fuit Canaan, à filio Cham sic | dicto: cuius filij eam inter se dis:|tribuerunt. Fuerunt autem hi Sydon, | Hethæus Iebusæus, Amorreus, Gergesæus, | et Hamathæus etc. Retinuit autem hæc ter:|ra hoc nomen, donæc Israelitæ posterita:|te Canaan partim cæsa, partim subacta eã | occuparent: Inde cæpit uocari Israel à | Iacob patriarcha. Ptolemeus et alij eam | uocant Palestinam à Palestinis quos | sacri libri Philistim uocant | Hodie eam terram Sanc|tam noncupant".)[The oldest name of this land was Kanaan, so called after the son of Cham, whose sons divided it among themselves. Here were Sydon, Hethæus, Iebusæus, Amorreus, Gergesæus, Hamathæus etc. This country retained this name when the Israelites and their issue occupied Kanaan, partly through battles, partly by subjection. Archfather Jacob was the first to call it Israel. Ptolemæus and others call it Palestina after the Palestines, who in the holy books are called Filistines. Now it is called the Holy Land].

Plate size: 349 x 464 mm
Scale: 1 : 1,500,000
Identification number: Ort 171 (Koeman/Meurer: 93, Karrow: 1/71a, vdKrogtAN: 8150:31B).

Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number:

1579L(A)87 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: septem libris Adamus Reisnerus. ; third line from the bottom ends: de-),
1579L(B)87 (250 copies printed) (last line, centred like 2 lines above it: septem libris Adamus Reisnerus. ; third line from the bottom ends: exactissimè ),
1580/1589G87 (350 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in Gothic script like the entire text: kriege:unnd newlich Adamus Reysnerus in syben gantzen Büchern.),
1581F87 (400 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: grande reuerence & deuotion.),
1584L111 (750 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "Iosephus ,de bello Iudaico lib.6&7.& nuper septem libris Adamus Reisnerus".),
1587F109 (250 copies printed) (last line, left aligned: en grande reuerence & deuotion.),
1592L18 (525 copies printed) (last line, left aligned, in cursive script like the entire text: "mam, Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib.6.&7. &nuper septem libris Adamus Reisnerus".).

Succeeded in 1595L by plate Ort 172 which has only three ships and no sea monsters, and which has as the last word in the title cartouche "SIGENENSI", whereas the present plate Ort 171 has "SIGENENS", 5 ships and one sea monster.

Approximate number of copies printed: 2775.

States: we know 171.1 only.

Cartographic sources: Stella 1552, 1557 (Karrow 72/5, p. 502-503, Meurer p. 244-245).

References: Tooley 1978 "The Map Collector" 3 p. 28-31.

Remarks: note the erroneous scale with the stadia: 80. 160. 240. 320. 400. 480. 500. 640.

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